William E. Wilson was born at Berrien Springs, Michigan, on November 5, 1860. When he was eight years old he traveled with his parents to Holt County, Missouri, and received a common school education. Imbued with romantic ideas from reading...

W. E. (Limestone) Wilson and 3 of his friends traveled on the government trail that ran from Fort Meade in the Black Hills to Fort Keogh on the Yellowstone. They were headed for Montana to hunt the last of the buffalo. They started out in December...

Vol.1 Number 1, Lewistown, Montana. Paid for by local Business Advertisers and the High School Alumni.
Includes articles on the Fergus High School Alumni, local school events, literary articles, sports and geological collections. Also lists courses...

Trygve Haugen talks about his father, John Haugen who built many of the buildings in Lewistown.. Mary Frances Devine Haugen talks about her father W.S. Devine, designer and architect of many Lewistown buildings

Topics include her childhood health care in Fergus County; her training with the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in Seattle; her work as a nurse in San Diego during the late 1940s; her relocation to Lewistown in 1952; her experiences as an obstetrics and...

Topics include growing up on a homestead north of Lewistown; home medical remedies; the education and training of nurses at St. Joseph's Hospital in Lewistown; the 1930s Depression; working as a nurse at Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls and at the...

This is the story of how the graveyard in old Kendall was started back in 1903 on the hill about a third of a mile east of what was then main street in today's ghost town in the North Moccasins. There are over 100 people buried in it

This booklet was written as a supplement to the book “Heritage Book of the Original Fergus County Area.” It is the story about the Catholic sisters who came to Lewistown to establish a school and St. Joseph's Hospital.

This book of Forest Grove and the area bordering is dedicated to the early pioneers, who settled in the early 1880's and to those who stayed, and others who came to develop this area into a productive farming and ranching community.

This article is an enlargement of a talk given to the Montana State Librarians' annual convention in Lewistown, Montana, October 10, 1927. Describes the early history of the Judith Basin area from the early Indian tribes through the early white...

The story of 59 Central Montana communities. Ken and Scottie Byerly inteviewed more than 100 people in their travels through Montana. These stories ran weekly in the Lewistown News-Argus from July 8, 1973 to August 28, 1974.

The Spotted Horse Mine was discovered in 1880 by Skookum Joe, a half-breed Indian. He shipped a considerable amount of high-grade ore at that time from the old discovery shaft. It is the belief that the mine was then sold to Patrick [Perry] McAdow...

The Spotted Horse Mine was discovered in 1880 by "Skookum" Joe, a half-breed Indian. He shipped a considerable amount of high-grade ore at that time from the old discovery shaft. It is the belief that the mine was then sold to Patrick McAdow for...

The purpose of the interview with Mrs. Daisy Tuss Monkelin was to reveal and preserve the contributions of the early Jugoslav settlers, one of several ethnic groups that started to come to Central Montana just before the turn of the century. As the...

The Lewistown Historic Resource Survey is a comprehensive inventory of a 41-block area of Lewistown, Montana. The purpose was to identify those buildings, sites or objects within the area that are important from a historic perspective, as well as...

The first interview with Raphy Stucky was done on July 15, 1985 with Anna Zellick. At a later time Anna Zellick did a second interview with Ralph Stucky and Richard Peck who both worked for the REA. These interviews were done at the request of the...

The development of the Lewistown School system coinsided with the homestead movement and the growth of the town, 1880-1920. For the next 25 years the district suffered immeasurably from the drought, economic depression and World War II.

The Citizens' Military Training Camps are conducted by the War Department under the National Defense Act. The objects of these camps are to bring together young men of high types from all sections of the country to develop closer national and...

The Carroll Trail was a short lived and relatively insignificant part of Montana's total transportation history but its long-term political impact on Central Montana was profound. There were three motives behind the building of Fort Maginnis in...

The area at the mouth of the Judith River, (where it meets the Missouir River) although isolated, contains more interesting important historical sites than possibly any other place in Montana. A number of attempts at settlement were made here in...

Textbook history of the Lewistown and Fergus County area. Includes a description of the government, mining, religions, manufacturing, entertainment, disasters of the area, ethnic goups, retailing and wholesaling, clubs, architecture of the local...

Souvenir program of Augustus Thomas’ Greatest Play “The Burglar” as portrayed by David Allen Martin supported by Lewistown’s Cleverest Players under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias, Judith Lodge No. 30, Tuesday April 28, Lewistown,...

Scope of paper.—The Big Snowy Mountains form one of several isolated groups of mountains rising above the plains of central Montana. They consist entirely of sedimentary rocks that have been arched upward in a huge elliptical dome. The Big Snowy...

Rudolph von Tobel was a prominent lawyer in Montana and was a Republican candidate in 1900 for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana came to Lewistown, Montana in 1885. He was born at Auburn, N. Y. on February 13, 1865. While still a...

Rocky Point crossing, on the Missouri River, was just below the mouth of the creek named North Mountain by Lewis and Clark in 1805. This stream running south from the Little Rockies later became Little Rocky Mountain Creek and finally Rock Creek....

Program for the Elks Social Session, Lewistown Lodge, 456. Elks presentation of the Best People on Earth, Lewistown, Montana. Friday January 27, 1899.Elks presentation of the Best People on Earth, Lewistown, Montana. Friday January 27, 1899.

Professor Pepp, a farcical comedy with a college flavor—in three acts. Presented by the Denton High School, Paramount Theater, Wednesday, May 12, 1920. By permission of the author, Walter Ben Hare. Includes various advertisements from Denton,...

Perley M. Silloway was the first principal of Fergus County High School (Lewistown, Montana) in 1900. He was also an author and a nationally recognized authority on birdlife. He came to Lewistown in 1898. He died in 1947. Silloway's reminiscences...

On August 21, 1989, John R. Foster contracted with the Lewistown Historic Preservation Office to do a Cultural Resource Inventory on the historic ghost town of Kendall, MT. Included in the contractual obligation was the specific task of completing...

Ola Mae was a member of the Highland Park P.T.A. 1928-1936; 1945-1951. In this interview Lewistown resident Ola Mae Hogeland discusses her memories and experiences with the Lewistown public schools, including her involvement in the Highland Park...

Mrs. Tucek’s recollections describe life in a small rural Montana town and how social organizations like the church and the women’s club were important venues for seeing neighbors and learning new things. Particularly interesting are her stories...

Mrs. Morris’ recollections vividly describe the activities of the Women’s Club and life in rural Montana. Although she lived in Kolin, ten miles away from Danvers, the Danvers Women’s Club was an extremely important part of her life and many of...